Podcast appearances and mentions of Peter D Ward

Art Bell - Climate Change - Dr. Peter D. Ward

Dorian's academic profile: https://geosci.uchicago.edu/people/dorian-abbot/ Follow Dorian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DorianAbbot References Dorian's article ‘MIT Abandons Its Mission. And Me.', in Bari Weiss's ‘Common Sense' Substack: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/mit-abandons-its-mission-and-me Dorian's ‘Wall Street Journal' article, ‘The Views That Made Me Persona Non Grata at MIT': https://www.wsj.com/articles/cancel-culture-college-mit-dorian-abbot-university-chicago-representation-equity-equality-11635516316? Watch Dorian's cancelled lecture, ‘Climate and the Potential for Life on Other Planets': https://jmp.princeton.edu/events/climate-and-potential-life-other-planets ‘Life on Mars: The Ethical Implications of Colonizing the Red Planet' by Thomas Cortellesi in ‘Areo Magazine': https://areomagazine.com/2018/07/02/life-on-mars-the-ethical-implications-of-colonizing-the-red-planet/ ‘Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe' by Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/dp/0387952896 Timestamps 2:24 What makes a planet habitable and how we find exoplanets. 8:18 Dorian's research on the cloud effects on tidally locked planets - and how these effects suggest these planets might be more habitable/Earth-like than previously thought. 14:10 How some exoplanets and their clouds provide a model for the possible future of climate change on Earth. 15:31 Dorian's views on the Fermi paradox - where are the aliens? Why Dorian believes extraterrestrial life is more likely than not. 20:23 Why we should hope to find no life at all on exoplanets rather than finding lots of extinct civilisations. 21:10 Twitter question: what does Dorian think a realistic time scale and strategy for colonising exoplanets would be? 22:39 Twitter question: how useful is the Drake equation? 24:08 Twitter question: what are Dorian's views on von Neumann self-replicating probes? (And a digression on ‘decolonisation' and the possible impacts of us colonising other planets.) 27:50 Dorian's views on the ‘Rare Earth' thesis, which posits that complex life is very unlikely to be found elsewhere in the universe. 29:32 What does Dorian's exoplanet work tell us about climate change? What does Dorian think are the main misconceptions about anthropogenic climate change? What we don't know: the future of climate change 32:21 Dorian's work on rogue planets - could these harbour life? 35:20 Has the atmosphere in physics departments changed recently? Is there pressure from the woke left and climate denialist right? Academia, cancel culture, and chilling. 39:52 Why science should be based on merit, not politics. 40:22 Who does Dorian think Iona should interview?

Der Klimawandel hat viele Gesichter. Eines ist der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels. Die Folgen lassen sich schon aus der Erdgeschichte ablesen: Küstenstädte werden überflutet, Ackerland wird unbrauchbar, Trinkwasser vernichtet werden. Der Geologe Peter Ward möchte warnen vor dem, was kommt. Von Dagmar Röhrlich www.deutschlandfunk.de, Andruck - Das Magazin für Politische Literatur Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Radio Curious revisits a two part conversation with Professor Peter D. Ward, author of “The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps,” in which he describes expected conditions in 2050, 2300 and 2500. In this edition of Radio Curious, the first of a two part series on global warming and sea level rise, we visit with Peter D. Ward, a paleontologist and professor of biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of “The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps,” in which he describes expected conditions in 2050, 2300 and 2500. The interview with Professor Peter D. Ward, was recorded on August 2, 2010, from his office in Seattle, Washington. The first interview begins with a description of what will happen when the level of the sea rises. The books Peter Ward recommends are: “An Inconvenient Truth,” by Al Gore and “Weather Makers,” by Tim Flannery and any book by Tim Flannery.

You can find out more about Scott’s work here: https://scottbarrykaufman.com/ Scott’s book, Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualisation: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/552566/transcend-by-scott-barry-kaufman-phd/9780143131205 Scott’s interview on Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/209-a-good-life/ Scott’s interview with Sean Carroll: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2020/04/06/91-scott-barry-kaufman-on-the-psychology-of-transcendence/ Follow Scott on Twitter: @sbkaufman Further References The OCEAN personality test: https://www.psychometrictest.org.uk/big-five-personality/ Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars trilogy: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars (1993) Derren Brown, Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine (2016) Sci fi series Salvation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6170874/ P. D. James, The Children of Men (1992) Peter D. Ward, Robert Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (2000) George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life (1871–72) Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1943) John Keats, “Ode on Melancholy” (1819): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44478/ode-on-melancholy Timestamps 2:35 The pyramid image versus Scott’s sailboat metaphor 13:37 Ascetic orders, basic needs & transcendence. Can monks be self-actualizing? 21:19 My general assessment of Scott’s book 23:44 The D-realm (“deficiency” realm) 26:52 Scott’s interview with Sam Harris 29:15 Disagreeableness 30:44 Axes of human personality 31:51 Stability and plasticity 34:08 Introversion and extraversion 38:54 The B-realm (“being” realm) 42:59 How easy is to access the B-realm and to find transcendence? 53:34 Peak experiences, flow states, transcendence 1:01:05 Maslow’s discoveries at the end of his life 1:02:58 Demotivation and how to fight it 1:07:04 Attachment styles and other ways in which the D- and B-realms are inextricably intertwined

Episode 142: Green Hell Paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter D. Ward studies the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (the one that killed the dinosaurs) and other mass extinctions. He is a leader in the intriguing new field of astrobiology, the study of the origin, distribution, and evolution of life in the universe. The discussion touched upon subjects such as; Climate change, The Salton Sea, California fires & other major earth changes. What does the future have in store for us? Mass Extinctions have happened in the past, are we due for another? Jon Kelly, who is an international clinician and world famous speech analyst, joined in as a co-host. For more information www.michaeldecon.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Episode 142: Green Hell Paleontologist and astrobiologist Peter D. Ward studies the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (the one that killed the dinosaurs) and other mass extinctions. He is a leader in the intriguing new field of astrobiology, the study of the origin, distribution, and evolution of life in the universe. The discussion touched upon subjects such as; Climate change, The Salton Sea, California fires & other major earth changes. What does the future have in store for us? Mass Extinctions have happened in the past, are we due for another? Jon Kelly, who is an international clinician and world famous speech analyst, joined in as a co-host. For more information www.michaeldecon.com